NRA to release school safety plan

The National Rifle Association is set to unveil its plans for safer schools on Tuesday, including more detailed recommendations for armed guards, according to a report.

The group’s National School Shield Program will include both legislative proposals for Congress and a guide for state and local officials to change their laws to allow armed guards on public school campuses, CNN reported.

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NRA announces program to put armed guards in schools

NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre first announced the program at his now-infamous press conference a week after the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. “The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun,” LaPierre declared at the time.

Former GOP Rep. Asa Hutchinson, who is expected to run for Arkansas governor in 2014, was placed in charge of developing the proposals.

In public polling, Americans have generally backed the idea of placing more police in schools.

The NRA’s announcement comes a week before the Senate may vote on a package of new gun control laws, including universal background checks and a federal gun trafficking law.